Breaking news Diss hotel refuses to take single men boat people

... Historically asylum seekers would for obvious reasons be entering a country illegally. However it is very naive to think that all the young men arriving on the boats are genuinely in need of asylum. Or even others on the boats with them. There will be those in genuine need of asylum sadly who are caught up in this mess

Allira

It is Government policy to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers. Obviously this is not working.

They presumably arrived illegally and then sought asylum. Illegal immigrants, probably about 1 million people, have probably disappeared and are not housed in hotels.

It's a fine point.

Histori

sassenach512

How many people have been waiting years for social housing in this country? They live in B&Bs, disgusting private accommodation running with mould, overcrowding relative's homes, many living on the streets yet the government are thinking of using empty properties for migrants to use?
What the hell is this country coming to? No doubt these long empty houses will be refurbished and made brand spanking new with new kitchens and bathrooms etc for these people to live comfortably in at great expense. When are we going to put our own people first?
We don't know who these, mostly, young men are, what they've done in their own countries or what they bring into our country.
We've had multiple cases of foreign looking men sitting around our beach front trying to chat up young girls out enjoying the beach. One said he was the young girl's brother when someone challenged him, which certainly was not the case, he was chased off by locals.
We're going to get lots more of this till we stop being the soft touch of Europe and make the UK undesirable to come here. I doubt the French are giving out £50 top ups for 'essentials' each week

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Grammaretto

A pub/hotel across the road from me has been taking local families and lone teenagers as emergency housing for years.
10 years ago nearly all our windows were broken by a gang of kids on some sort of vandalising spree.
The ring leader was a teenage girl white, with a Scottish accent. Not an asylum seeker in sight.

Luckily it hasn't happened since but it was very upsetting at the time.

At least an anti social behaviour can be served against the locals

How many people have been waiting years for social housing in this country? They live in B&Bs, disgusting private accommodation running with mould, overcrowding relative's homes, many living on the streets yet the government are thinking of using empty properties for migrants to use?
What the hell is this country coming to? No doubt these long empty houses will be refurbished and made brand spanking new with new kitchens and bathrooms etc for these people to live comfortably in at great expense. When are we going to put our own people first?
We don't know who these, mostly, young men are, what they've done in their own countries or what they bring into our country.
We've had multiple cases of foreign looking men sitting around our beach front trying to chat up young girls out enjoying the beach. One said he was the young girl's brother when someone challenged him, which certainly was not the case, he was chased off by locals.
We're going to get lots more of this till we stop being the soft touch of Europe and make the UK undesirable to come here. I doubt the French are giving out £50 top ups for 'essentials' each week

eazybee

^They are all asylum seekers Primrose not illegal immigrants^

They call themselves asylum seekers.
Unproven, that is, not demonstrated by evidence.

You have it the wrong way round and don't seem to understand our law. This may be the influence of Trump Countries law as it goes down the Gilead route of being guilty until proven innocent.

Here we still believe that people are innocent until proven guilty and nothing you chose to believe stops that being a truth. So they are asylum seekers until they have been proved not to be. And now the government (see previous figures) are ramping up the processing and ramping up the returns.

Wethersfield Airbase here in Essex is to take 50% more young male asylum seekers

It currently has approximately 800, this will rise to 1,220 according to the leader of the local council.

The Home Office is considering using its temporary surge capacity to meet the demands of asylum seekers arriving in the U.K.

How about the government does something about the homeless U.K. families living in temporary B & B’s and unsuitable accommodation with young children?

Mt61

I recently saw a friend walking her dogs near to my house, so pulled over to talk to her, I said I’ve never seen her up my end before. She said, there are tents in the woods at the back of her house, one of the neighbors walking her dog was approached by two men, one tried to pull by the hood towards this wood, but her dog went for him. She said she now won’t walk her dogs in the woods now.

Guess it's not a small town then?

I have gone the usual legal routes myself if need be about things - but I do know that there is a local alternative route (known as "The Boys"). I've even had one of The Boys tell me about a visit that was paid to several local thieves - apparently they decided to give up stealing at that point. It's also been out there publicly on local Facebook groups about visits by The Boys.

I think a lot of people in some communities will know of a "second tier of justice" so to say in their communities and I suspect those tents wouldnt be there for long....

escaped

So where else are we going put them then in their large numbers? If it can't be in old barracks, or on barges, or in hotels, what is left?

Not our responsibility.

karmalady

Jaxjacky

They are all asylum seekers Primrose not illegal immigrants.

Don`t delude yourself because you want to live in a comfortable delusional bubble.

Those young men are illegal and most are just migrants and certainly not asylum seekers.

I was wondering whether there should be a #wink wink smilie just after that comment.

#wink wink - of course they are asylum seekers (not...........).

I've got friends ITRW (In the Real World) who have tried to assure me these men really are genuine asylum seekers - and there's no such thing as illegal immigrants. But then - in the next breath - they've gone onto comments that it's all karma/payback for when Britain had an empire etc etc - and I've thought "Now that should be interesting if you can prove any more than 1% of us have ancestors that have been out there Empire-grabbing generations back - because my own ancestors most certainly werent and were doing perfectly ordinary things like being the village baker or working in a dockyard or the like".

I might believe it about, say, an Afghan woman or an Iranian woman.....but all these fighting age men......hmmmm.....

It would be interesting to know the scale of hotels etc that the Government are asking to be hotels for these illegal migrants. One wonders how many are just grabbing for the money on the one hand v. how many are turning the Government down on the other hand.

I'm not aware of any moneygrabber ones near me - but I am aware of one that has turned down what he called "loads of money" - and he wasnt British either (judging by his name) - but he'd obviously decided to have a few morals about supporting the country that has taken him in (officially and legally).

Up to a point Chocolatelovinggran I agree with you.
On a personal level I’m sure I wouldn’t like the man if I met him, but I’m talking about his ability to get things done for the good of his country.
There’s no way he would tolerate the ridiculous situation we currently have here, with successive governments apparently unable to stop the tide of illegal migration.

One problem is it takes so long for their applications to be processed one young man we met stayed briefly with a neighbour has waited 10 YEARS to get leave to remain. During that time he couldn't work legally, though people were giving him cash in hand jobs for gardening etc. the Home Office is not fit for purpose.

A pub/hotel across the road from me has been taking local families and lone teenagers as emergency housing for years.
10 years ago nearly all our windows were broken by a gang of kids on some sort of vandalising spree.
The ring leader was a teenage girl white, with a Scottish accent. Not an asylum seeker in sight.

Luckily it hasn't happened since but it was very upsetting at the time.

It's wrong to say that France doesn't put asylum seekers in hotels, it does. During the Olympic Games last year thousands were removed from hotels and evacuated to the provinces in order to use the Paris hotels for tourists.

Another problem is, that once they have been processed, asylum seekers continue living in the hotels, so there's no new available room and more hotels have to be found.

Oh Jennifer Eccles, you would like a convicted felon, a proven liar, and a man associated with sex trafficking and child abuse here?
Not I.

We are still in this situation with boatloads of illegal/undocumented, (whatever you want to call them) males arriving here every day, so well done to that particular hotel for refusing to take any.

It’s an appalling situation isn’t it, and made worse by the current government refusing to at least give the Rwanda deal a chance.
My theory is they were afraid it would have worked and then of course the Conservatives would have the credit.

We know nothing about these men.
We don’t know who they are, where they’ve come from, which ones have a criminal record, and whether they wish us harm.

Oh how I wish we had someone like Donald Trump here.

Jaxjacky

They are all asylum seekers Primrose not illegal immigrants.

Oh how they like to twist the truth. Of course, you're right, they are asylum seekers Jaxjacky but I think it will be just about when hell freezers over that the truth twisting stops.

I wonder if the blinkers have been shed enough to believe some actual facts:

As decisions increase, so does the number of people whose claims have concluded without success and who now face removal from the UK. There were just 346 enforced asylum returns in the whole of 2021 and 580 in 2022. The number increased to 1,997 in 2023 and in 2024 there were 2,647 enforced asylum returns. (17 Apr 2025)

Keep telling the misinformed Jaxjacky. One day they may see they allow their opinions to overwhelm truth - but I wouldn't hold my breath.

pably15

certainly here illegaly, and what other country would allow them in without a passport

Never mind passport. We won’t be allowed into Europe without a visa from late 2025-2026.
It will affect us, but it’s to put in place additional blocks to non-Schengen travellers who attempt to cross the borders.

^The European Union is introducing new entry requirements for travelers who previously didn't need a visa, including those from the UK. ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorisation System) will require a travel authorization for short stays, and the Entry/Exit System (EES) will automate border checks.
ETIAS is expected to be launched in the last quarter of 2026, following the implementation of EES.^

Jaxjacky

They are all asylum seekers Primrose not illegal immigrants.

'Asylum seekers' apply through the proper channels. They don't arrive illegally on boats from across the channel or in the back of lorries. Those arrivals are illegal immigrants until they go through the application process.

They could apply for asylum in the first safe country they manage to escape to and not have an end goal of the UK. Countries in mainland Europe are safe and that is where they should apply.

Mt61

I recently saw a friend walking her dogs near to my house, so pulled over to talk to her, I said I’ve never seen her up my end before. She said, there are tents in the woods at the back of her house, one of the neighbors walking her dog was approached by two men, one tried to pull by the hood towards this wood, but her dog went for him. She said she now won’t walk her dogs in the woods now.

So guessing tents!

I recently saw a friend walking her dogs near to my house, so pulled over to talk to her, I said I’ve never seen her up my end before. She said, there are tents in the woods at the back of her house, one of the neighbors walking her dog was approached by two men, one tried to pull by the hood towards this wood, but her dog went for him. She said she now won’t walk her dogs in the woods now.

Apparently: Home Office statistics show that 75% of 'illegal' immigrants are successful in their asylum claims.

On the basis of evidence or on the judgement of the Home Office?
We know the Government is doing everything it can to encourage mass immigration.

Well, if 75 per cent of them are successful, then 75 per cent of them are telling the truth, so, in the end, not 'unproven'.

They are all asylum seekers Primrose not illegal immigrants

They call themselves asylum seekers.
Unproven, that is, not demonstrated by evidence.

pably15

there are so many empty houses in the country , why are our own homeless not getting them

I agree……there’s a property close by to where we live and it has been unoccupied for over 25 years. It is privately owned and the owner wants nothing to do with it, the garden is massively overgrown, it is infested with rats, the roof is so badly damaged slates are ripped off with every high wind. The LA are aware but are powerless because the owner has MH problems.